Technical Articles

Steven Jones, Jeffrey Farrer, Gregory Jenkins, Frank Legge, James Gourley, Kevin Ryan, Daniel Farnsworth, and Crockett Grabbe, Extremely High Temperatures During the World Trade Center Destruction, January 2008

Steven Jones, Frank Legge, Kevin Ryan, Anthony Szamboti, and James Gourley, Fourteen Points of Agreement with Official Government Reports on the World Trade Center Destruction, 2008

Kevin Ryan, James Gourley and Steven Jones, Environmental anomalies at the World Trade Center: Evidence for Energetic Materials, August 2008

Steven Jones, Robert Korol, Anthony Szamboti, and Ted Walter, 15 Years Later: On the Physics of High-Rise Building Collapses, Europhysics News, July-August 2016

A.1.16 Robert Korol et al.

Robert Korol, Paul Heerema, and Ken Sivakumaran, The Collapse of WTC 7: A Re-Examination of the “Simple Analysis” Approach, February 2016

Steven Jones, Robert Korol, Anthony Szamboti, and Ted Walter, 15 Years Later: On the Physics of High-Rise Building Collapses, Europhysics News, July-August 2016

A.1.17 Kenneth Kuttler

WTC 7: A short Computation, June 2006

Estimates for Time to Collapse of WTC1

A.1.18 Frank Legge

9/11 – Evidence for Controlled Demolition: A Short List of Observations, June 2006

NIST Data Disproves Collapse Theories Based on Fire, August 2006

9/11 – The Twin Towers and Common Sense

9/11 – Acceleration Study Proves Explosive Demolition, November 2006

Conspiracy Theories, Myths, Skepticism, and 9/11: their Impact on Democracy, September 2007

Frank Legge and Tony Szamboti, 9/11 and the Twin Towers: Sudden Collapse Initiation was Impossible, December 2007

WTC 1 Collapse – What if the Columns Miss?, March 2008

9/11 – Proof of Explosive Demolition without Calculations, March 2008

9/11 and Probability Theory, June 2008

Controlled Demolition at the WTC: A Historical Examination of the Case, May 2009

Anonymous and Frank Legge, Falsifiability and the NIST WTC Report: A Study in Theoretical Adequacy, 2010

A.1.19 Jerry Lobdill

Molten What?, March 2007

Some Physical Chemistry Aspects of Thermite, Thermate, Iron-Aluminum-Rich Microspheres, the Eutectic, and the Iron-Sulfur System as Applied to the Demise of Three World Trade Center Buildings on 9/11/2001, June 2007

A.1.20 Graeme McQueen et al.

118 Witnesses: The Firefighters’ Testimony to Explosions in the Twin Towers, August 2006

156 Eyewitnesses Whose Statements are Suggestive of Explosions in the Twin Towers, August 2006

Sonic Booms in the Collapse of the Twin Towers?, June 2007

Waiting for Seven: WTC 7 Collapse Warnings in the FDNY Oral Histories, January 2008

Graeme MacQueen and Tony Szamboti, The Missing Jolt: A Simple Refutation of the NIST-Bazant Collapse Hypothesis, April 2009

Did the Earth Shake Before the South Tower Hit the Ground?, July 2009

A.1.21 William Pepper

The NIST Report on the Collapse of WTC Building 7 Challenged by 2,100 Architects and Engineers, December 2013

A.1.22 Gordon Ross et al.

Momentum Transfer Analysis of the Collapse of the Upper Storeys of WTC 1, June 2006

Reply to Dr. Greening, August 2006

Craig Furlong and Gordon Ross, Seismic Proof – 9/11 Was an Inside Job (Updated Version II), September 2006

NIST and Dr. Bazant – A Simultaneous Failure, May 2007

Response to “Anonymous”: Partial Logic – Partial Answer

A.1.23 Andre Rousseau

Were Explosives the Source of the Seismic Signals Emitted from New York on September 11, 2001?, November 2012

A.1.24 Kevin Ryan

High Velocity Bursts of Debris from Point-Like Sources in the WTC Towers, June 2007

The Top Ten Connections Between NIST and Nano-Thermites, July 2008

A.1.25 Ansgar Schneider

The Late Jolt: Re-Examining the World Trade Center Catastrophe, October 2019

A.1.26 Tony Szamboti et al.

Frank Legge and Tony Szamboti, 9/11 and the Twin Towers: Sudden Collapse Initiation was Impossible, December 2007

The Sustainability of the Controlled Demolition Hypothesis for the Destruction of the Twin Towers, February 2008

Graeme MacQueen and Tony Szamboti, The Missing Jolt: A Simple Refutation of the NIST-Bazant Collapse Hypothesis, April 2009

Gregory Szuladzinski, Anthony Szamboti, and Richard Johns, Some Misunderstandings Related to WTC Collapse Analysis, International Journal of Protective Structures, June 2013

Tony Szamboti and Richard Johns, ASCE Journals Refuse to Correct Fraudulent Paper They Published On WTC Collapses, September 2014

A.1.27 Gregory Szuladzinski et al.

Temporal Considerations in Collapse of WTC Towers, February 2012

Gregory Szuladzinski, Anthony Szamboti, and Richard Johns, Some Misunderstandings Related to WTC Collapse Analysis, International Journal of Protective Structures, June 2013

A.1.28 Adam Taylor

Other Collapses in Perspective: An Examination of Steel Structures Collapsing due to Fire and their Relation to the WTC, April 2013

Clarifying the Question of Collapse Times on 9/11, August 2021

Does Molten Aluminum Glow?, September 2013

A.1.29 Gregory Urich

Analysis of Mass and Potential Energy in the World Trade Center Twin Towers

Analysis of the Mass and Potential Energy of World Trade Center Tower 1, March 2007

A.1.30 John Wyndham et al.

John Wyndham, Wayne Coste, and Michael Smith, Ethics and the Official Reports about the Destruction of the World Trade Center Twin Towers (WTC1 and WTC2) on 9/11: A Case Study, 2014

Peer Review in Controversial Topics —A Case Study of 9/11, June 2017

A.1.31 Others

Robert Moore, Statement Regarding Thermite: Part 1, January 2007

Brian Vasquez, Glowing Aluminum Disinformation?, February 2007

Wes Lifferth, A Description of Molten Aluminum Poured onto Rusty Steel, March 2007

Terry Morrone, Proof that the Thermal and Gravitational Energy Available Were Insufficient to Melt Steel in the Twin Towers and 7 World Trade Center on 9/11/01, April 2007

Anon, Non-animated Visualization Aids to Assist in Understanding the Demolitions of the World Trade Center Twin Towers, November 2007

Scott Jones, An Independent Analysis of NIST’s Scientific Methods and Assumptions

A.2 Challenges to NIST by AE911Truth

Bob McIlvaine, Bill Doyle, Steven Jones, Kevin Ryan, Richard Gage, AIA, and Scholars for 9/11 Truth and Justice, request for correction submitted to NIST, April 2007

NIST, response to 2007 request for correction above, September 2007

James Gourley, Bob McIlvaine, Steven Jones, Kevin Ryan, Richard Gage, AIA, and Scholars for 9/11 Truth and Justice, appeal letter to NIST, October 2007

NIST, David Chandler, James Gourley, Lorie van Auken, Steven Jones, Mindy Kleinberg, and others, Technical Briefing on Building 7, Transcript, August 2008

David Chandler, response to NIST, 2008

NIST, Finding Regarding Public Safety Information, July 2009

William Pepper, The NIST Report on the Collapse of WTC Building 7 Challenged by 2,100 Architects and Engineers, December 2013

90+ signers, Request for Correction Under the Data Quality Act to NIST’s Final Report on the Collapse of World Trade Center Building 7, April 2020

NIST, denial of 2020 request for correction above, August 2020

90+ signers, Appeal of the Initial Decision Regarding the Request for Correction to NIST’s Final Report on the Collapse of World Trade Center Building 7, September 2020

90+ signers, Supplemental Data Related to the Request for Correction to NIST’s Final Report on the Collapse of World Trade Center Building 7, December 2020

AE911Truth, Request for Issuance of Final Decision, and Alternative Notice of Intent to Sue, June 2021

NIST, Response to Appeal of NIST’s Initial Decision under the Information Quality Standards Guidelines, June 2021

United States District Court for The District of Columbia, Case 1:21-cv-02365 Document 1 [AE911Truth at al.’s lawsuit against NIST for denying 2020 request for correction above], September 2021

United States District Court for The District of Columbia, Case 1:21-cv-02365 Document 22 [dismissing AE911Truth at al.’s 2021 lawsuit above], August 2022

A.3 Countering Disinformation, Samples

A.3.1 By AE911Truth

Focus on WTC 1, 2, and 7: 29 Structural and Civil Engineers Cite Evidence for Controlled Demolition of All 3 WTC High-Rises on 9/11, June 2009

Adam Taylor, What About the Planes That Slammed into The Twin Towers? Wouldn’t They Have Disturbed the Demolition Devices?, January 2012

Extremely High Temperatures and Molten Metal Evidence at WTC

Adam Taylor, What Is Nanothermite? Could It Have Been Used to Demolish the WTC Skyscrapers?, June 2012

Areas of Specific Concern in the NIST WTC Reports, April 2015

Why the AIA Should Support a New Investigation into the Complete Collapse of World Trade Center Building 7, 2015

Robert Korol and Anthony Szamboti, A Response from the ‘Lay Critics’ Regarding ‘Mechanics-Based Mathematical Studies Proving Spontaneity of Post-Impact WTC Towers Collapse’ [unpublished by Europhysics], March 2017

A.3.2 By Adam Taylor et al.

A Critical Review of the “9/11 Mysteries Viewer’s Guide,” June 2011

A Response to Chris Mohr’s Respectful Rebuttal of Richard Gage’s 9/11 Blueprint for Truth, September 2014

Observations on NIST’s WTC Fireproofing Loss and Collapse Scenario for the WTC Towers, September 2020

John-Michael Talboo and Adam Taylor, Debunking 9/11 Debunking: On WTC’s Design to Withstand 707 Impact, October 2020

Collapse or Explosion? A Discussion of the WTC, “Sounds of Explosions” Issue, January 2021

A.3.3 By David Chandler

Freefall and Building 7 on 9/11

Greening vs. Chandler and Newton’s Laws, 2009

Response to Dave Thomas

A.3.4 By Others

Kevin Ryan, Manuel Garcia Sees Physics That Don’t Exist, December 2006

Francisco Gonzalez, Comments on Garcia’s Sept. 12, 2007, Article in Counterpunch, September 2007

Frank Legge, 9/11 – A Letter to a Die-Hard Supporter of the Official Explanation, October 2007

Andrea Dreger, Sources Related to Exceptionally High Temperatures, and/or to Persistent Heat at Ground Zero; Disinformation Regarding the Phenomena of “Molten Steel”/Exceptionally High Temperatures/Persistent Heat at Ground Zero; Pre-Collapse Pressure Pulses, July 2008

Frank Legge, Frank Greening versus Isaac Newton, May 2009

David Proe and Ian Thomas, Center for Environmental Safety and Risk Engineering, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia, Comments on NIST WTC7 Report, March 2012

John-Michael Talboo and Ziggi Zugam, 9/11: Explosive Material in the WTC Dust, February 2016

Anthony Szamboti, Open Letter to Prof. Bazant [requesting correction of four papers published by the Journal of Engineering Mechanics], June 2016

P S Kayley, Sudden Building Collapse: An Evaluation of a New Risk in Operational Fire-fighting: An Independent Analysis, July 2016

American Institute of Architects, Resolution 16-3, Investigation of the Total Collapse of World Trade Center Building 7 [voted down], 2016

Mick Harrison, Preliminary Legal Assessment, for Public Consumption, of NIST’s Final Decision on Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth’s WTC 7 Request for Correction, July 2021

Anthony Szamboti and Richard Johns, Request for further action in the matter of Tony Szamboti and Richard Johns’ Ethics Complaint against ASCE members [and former editors of the Journal of Engineering Mechanics] Roberto Ballarini and Kaspar Willam [over discussing Le and Bazant’s 2011 paper], May 2022

Anthony Szamboti and Richard Johns, Appeal of Decision [by the Journal of Engineering Mechanics’ editor Franz-Josef Ulm to uphold the non-publication of a discussion of Le and Bazant’s 2011 paper], June 2022

B. Defenses of the Official WTC Collapse Narrative

B.1 Zdenek Bazant et al. — Mainstream Engineering Papers

Zdenek Bazant and Yong Zhou, Why Did the World Trade Center Collapse? —Simple Analysis, ASCE Journal of Engineering Mechanics, September 2001

Zdenek Bazant and Mathieu Verdure, Mechanics of Progressive Collapse: Learning from World Trade Center and Building Demolitions, ASCE Journal of Engineering Mechanics, March 2007

Zdenek Bazant, Jia-Liang Le, Frank Greening, and David Benson, What Did and Did not Cause Collapse of WTC Twin Towers in New York, ASCE Journal of Engineering Mechanics, March 2008

Zdenek Bazant and Jia-Liang Le, Closure to “Mechanics of Progressive Collapse: Learning from World Trade Center and Building Demolitions,” ASCE Journal of Engineering Mechanics, October 2008

Jia-Liang Le and Zdenek Bazant, Why the Observed Motion History of World Trade Center Towers Is Smooth, ASCE Journal of Engineering Mechanics, January 2011

Jia-Liang Le and Zdenek Bazant, Mechanics of Collapse of WTC Towers Clarified by Recent Column Buckling Tests of Korol and Sivakumaran, June 2022

Jia-Liang Le and Zdenek Bazant, Spontaneous Collapse Mechanism of World Trade Center Twin Towers and Progressive Collapse in General, ASCE Journal of Structural Engineering, June 2022